A Pure Mirror Turned to Face the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Pure Mirror Turned to Face the Sun write by R. K. Cogburn. This book was released on 2024-07-16. A Pure Mirror Turned to Face the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Both carefully researched and engaging, this small book invites the reader into the story of a remarkable fourth-century Cappadocian woman, St. Macrina the Younger, who met challenges that may seem familiar today. Surrounded by polarizing political conflict, in an empire divided by growing disparities between rich and poor, Macrina lived through earthquakes and disastrous droughts. She saw people displaced by war and severe weather, pushed into the ranks of the hungry and houseless. She suffered breast cancer and lost loved ones in tragic, unexpected deaths. Her response was nothing less audacious, fascinating, and inspiring than a commitment to know, reveal, and reflect God in her actions, and to make her home a microcosm of gospel life—an inclusive community of love, equality, simplicity, labor, caring, and generosity. The story begins with Macrina’s parents among Christian refugees hiding in the hills during the Great Persecution. Restored to their family estates after the Edict of Milan, they raised two of the Cappadocian Fathers and two other saints. In this book, we follow their eldest child, Macrina, as her lived faith changes the course of her own life, and gradually and steadily permeates and remakes her family and community.
The Jing Si Dharma Essence of the Wondrous Lotus Sutra Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter
The Jing Si Dharma Essence of the Wondrous Lotus Sutra Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jing Si Dharma Essence of the Wondrous Lotus Sutra Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter write by Shih Cheng Yen. This book was released on 2023-05-01. The Jing Si Dharma Essence of the Wondrous Lotus Sutra Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction (內容簡介) The Wondrous Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra teaches the Bodhisattva Way, which is the original intent of all buddhas in opening the provisional to reveal the true. It is the Middle Way where matters and principles are in harmony; it is the perfect teaching of wondrous existence in true emptiness. It is the king of all sutras, the ultimate reality of the One Vehicle, and the one teaching that leads to buddhahood. The Lotus Sutra consists of Twenty-Eight Chapters, divided into three parts: Preface, Main Teachings, and Transmission. The Introductory Chapter is the Preface. The Jing Si Dharma Essence of the Wondrous Lotus Sutra combines the wondrous meanings of the sutra text with Dharma Master Cheng Yen’s notes as she explains the Dharma. The two parts connect and complement each other, skillfully explaining the Dharma in subtle and wondrous detail and revealing the wondrous state of the extremely profound true Dharma. 《妙法蓮華經》旨在教菩薩法，乃開權顯實之諸佛本懷，是事理圓融之中道，是真空妙有之圓教，為諸經之王，一乘實相，成佛唯一之教。 《法華經》共二十八品，入文為三︰初序分，二正宗分，三流通分。本書〈序品第一〉為序分。 《靜思法髓妙蓮華》融會經文妙義與證嚴法師之講法手札，此兩部分相連貫、互呼應，宛轉委曲、微妙細膩，顯示法華經真實甚深法藏之奧祕境界。
From the Risale-i Nur Collection: The words
From the Risale-i Nur Collection: The words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Risale-i Nur Collection: The words write by Said Nursi. This book was released on 1992. From the Risale-i Nur Collection: The words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Three Women in a Mirror
Three Women in a Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Women in a Mirror write by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. This book was released on 2013-07-02. Three Women in a Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A miraculous book in praise of women, in praise of both their shortcomings and their strengths” from the internationally bestselling author (l’Express). Anne, Hanna, and Anny. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with the age in which they live. Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect—a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension and richness to this novel, which builds to a thrilling crescendo of unexpected revelations. Anne lives in Flanders in the sixteenth century. She’s a mystic who talks with animals like Saint Francis; she finds God in nature and cannot understand the need for religious rituals. Yet her ideas run against the temper of the times and result in her being branded a heretic, with tragic consequences. Hanna lives in Vienna at the start of the twentieth century. She is a young noblewoman, dissatisfied with bourgeois conventions, who will find a method for uncovering the roots of her malaise in a new cure developed by a Viennese doctor by the name of Sigmund Freud. Anny is a Hollywood star of the 2000s, addicted to celebrity and to variety of illicit substances. Both her curse and her solace, acting will give her the key to an open a new chapter in her life where she will find love, companionship, and the meaning she has been searching for. “Schmitt writes movingly about three women, divided by time and distance, whose lives connect when they attempt to break free of expectations imposed by society . . . Schmitt’s three complex stories are beautifully translated and masterfully written.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Annabella and the Secret of the Mirrors
Annabella and the Secret of the Mirrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Annabella and the Secret of the Mirrors write by Alan McCune. This book was released on 2014-07-07. Annabella and the Secret of the Mirrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Annabella and the Secret of the Mirrors is a tale set in another world where society is divided by the color of your eyes and the Ministry rules with a promise of Coneyesion – but only if you serve with loyalty, dedication and commitment to their ways. In this world, mirrors are banned because of their dangerous secret properties, but yet the wind brings whispers of their existence and untold powers. Annabella's life seemed normal until she was forced into a journey of self- discovery. On this journey – one that few girls her age could survive – she is thrust into a world of pain and solitude, yet it is her courage and curiosity that will lead Annabella towards an unimaginable future. Along the way, Annabella learns that faith, hope and fear are what can kill you, and yet these emotions also keep you alive. She faces demons she never knew existed, and even some within herself that haven't yet bared their teeth. This is a story that will make you fall in love with a warrior in the making – or maybe a demon slowly being unleashed.
